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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

27/12/1934

The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.

Year of ship completion

1927

The individual and/or organisation listed as having been responsible for constructing the vessel. This can/may be the same as the owner and/or manager.

Shipbuilder

Cammell, Laird & Co Ltd

The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.

Place of build

Birkenhead

Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.

Port of survey abbreviations

Sou

Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.

Document identity

9 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c., of Engines and Boilers

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

11/07/1934

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Blue Star Line Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Southampton

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Southampton

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/03/1936

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

Passenger

Type of fuel used onboard a vessel.

Fuel

Steam - Oil

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.

Net Register Tonnage

8873

Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?

Machinery aft?

No

Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).

Is a donkey boiler fitted?

No

Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.

Lloyd's Proving House?

No

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

BS 12.34

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Arandora Star - 1929

The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.

Launch Date

01/02/1928

Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.

Yard no

921

The country in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.

Country of build

United Kingdom

Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.

Survey number

15653

The country (flag) that a vessel is registered to, at the time of writing.

Country of registration

United Kingdom

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

12/07/1935

Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record

Document author

G T Champness

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Gerald Thurlow Champness

Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.

Classification

+100A1 with freeboard 12.33; ss Sou No 1.31; fitted for oil fuel 5.27; FP above 150˚ F; +LMC 12.30; BS 12.33; TS CL 11.33

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Southampton

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Steel

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

15178

Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.

Refrigeration machinery fitted for cargo purposes?

No

Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?

Auxillary

No

Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?

Electric light fitted?

No

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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